Walt Crawford

Library
Writing * Research * Speaking

Walt Crawford is an
internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology,
policy and media. He is open for opportunities in library-related
research, writing, editing and speaking on a part-time or
project-oriented telecommuting basis.

He is available to speak on a variety of topics, specifically those
related to recent books and research projects. He could also prepare
custom reports for states and groups of states based on the work done
for $4 to $1: Public Library Benefits and Budgets.

From October 2007 through March 2010, Crawford was Editorial Director
of the Library Leadership Network (since abandoned by LYRASIS). For many
years before that, he was a Senior Analyst at RLG, focusing on user
interface design and actual usage patterns for end-user bibliographic
search systems, finally working on RLG-OCLC transition and integration
issues through September 2007.

Crawford is the creator, writer and publisher of Cites
& Insights: Crawford at Large, an occasional ejournal on
the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media published
since December 2000. He also maintains a blog on these and other issues,
Walt at Random.

Self-published books (through Lulu) appear at the bottom of this page.

Crawford has written columns for American Libraries, EContent,
ONLINE Magazine and Library Hi Tech. In all, he has
written more than 500 library-related articles and columns appearing in
a range of library publications. Crawford was cited as one of the 31
most frequently cited authors in library literature 1994-2004 (the only
American writer on that list outside academic libraries and library
schools). In 1995, he received the American Library Association's
LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for
Continuing Education, followed by the ALCTS/Blackwell Scholarship Award
in 1997. He was president of the Library and Information Technology
Association in 1992/93.

*All Cites & Insights PDF ebooks are explicitly site-licensed for
mounting on a library's server and providing to authenticated users. That
includes The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014, A Library Is..., Beyond the
Damage and any others.

Contact

Username: waltcrawford Domain: gmail.com [checked several times a day].
I'm also on Twitter frequently and Facebook, Mokum (LSW) and Google+
once or twice a day, maybe.